Kaufman Center

Where Arts Education Meets Performance in New York City
With its renowned concert hall, its community arts school and its innovative public school for musically
gifted kids, Kaufman Center is an extraordinary resource for students, teachers, artists and audiences.

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Adventurous and eclectic performances in an intimate, acoustically superior space

Music, theater and dance classes and private lessons for children, teens and adults

A New York City public school (P.S. 859) for musically gifted children

Upcoming Events

November 23

Elliott Carter’s First Hundred Years

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December 08

Broadway Close Up: Bound for Broadway

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December 14

Poppy Seed Players: Latkes and Applesauce

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December 16

Tuesday Matinees: Alturas Duo

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December 17

SMS Winter Choral Concert

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January 10

Midwest meets Mideast

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January 11

Broadway Playhouse: Frank Loesser

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January 11

LMS Jazz Program Celebration

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January 29

Vox Americana: Joel Harrison, Oliver Lake, and Wendy Sutter

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February 01

Broadway Playhouse: Jerry Herman

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February 01

LMS/SMS Concerto Competition Winners’ Concert

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February 10

Tuesday Matinees: iO Quartet

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February 10

NYFOS: Voices of the Jewish Diaspora

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February 11

Lucy Moses School Faculty in Concert

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March 01

Poppy Seed Players: Queen Esther

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March 01

LMS/SMS Contemporary Music Festival

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March 10

Tuesday Matinees: Henry Schneider Scholarship Concert

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March 12

Notes on the War: The Piano Protests

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March 17

NYFOS: Songs of the Irish Poets

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March 21

Duo-logues: Bugallo-Williams Piano Duo

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March 22

Poppy Seed Players: Yo, Jonah!

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March 24

Tuesday Matinees: Amstel Quartet, saxophones

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March 28

Cecil Taylor Speaks Volumes

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April 02

Bang on a Can People’s Commissioning Fund Concert

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April 04

Juxtapositions in Jazz

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April 05

Broadway Playhouse: Lynn Ahrens & Stephen Flaherty

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April 05

LMS/SMS Composer Festival

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April 21

Tuesday Matinees: Sivan Magen, harp

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April 28

Lingua Appalachia: An Evening of Strings

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May 04

Shir Artistry: The Modern Cantor

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May 05

Birds of a Feather: Messiaen and his Legacy

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May 07

Rags’ Riches: Jonathan Batiste and Imani Winds

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May 12

Tuesday Matinees: Sasha Cooke, mezzo-soprano

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May 14

Post-Jazz / Post-Rock: The Musical Truth

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May 19

NYFOS: The Welcome Shore

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May 25

Street Talk: Miles’ On the Corner

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May 27

LMS Musical Theater Workshop and Teen Acting Performance

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May 30

Writing Jazz: An Epilogue on Influence

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May 31

LMS Suzuki Festival

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May 31

LMS/SMS ChamberFest

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June 07

LMS Dance Recital I

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June 07

LMS Dance Recital II

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June 10

SMS Spring Choral Concert

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June 14

NASHIR! The Rottenberg Chorale Concert

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